LABOR: Head Trucker's Breakdown

For its president, the American Trucking
Associations likes to pick a trucker whose business is a model in the
trade.
Last year it picked a trucker who seemed to fit all the qualifications:
Birmingham's John B. Cole Jr., 44. A onetime freight-commission
salesman, Jack Cole bought his first truck 20 years ago, built up a
fleet of 195 diesel tractors and 285 trailers, a staff of 400 drivers,
mechanics and clerks, and a ten-city chain of terminals. But last week
Cole's business was anything but a model. In a pay dispute with his
drivers, his $6,000,000-a-year business was closed.